Education for Intercultural Understanding
Education for Intercultural Understanding
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跨文化理解教育
DOI：
10.1080/00221546.1947.11775640
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1947
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F. Northrop
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教育必须使人们能够理解和解决我们这个时代不可避免的问题。因此，任何对教育性质的考虑都必须从分析这些问题开始。即使以重复为代价，也必须重申，我们这个时代最紧迫的问题集中在原子弹上。这颗炸弹出现在我们中间，提出了一个问题：我们是否还有时间来面对世界上其他紧迫的问题。下一场战争将真正是一场结束所有未来战争的战争，因为它将是一场结束所有可能的战士的战争。然而，原子弹本身并不是真正的危险。因为原子弹不会伤害文明，除非人类把它导向这样的目的。这意味着问题的中心不是科学技术，而是道德哲学和社会科学。正是后者创造了社会概念——经济的、政治的、宗教的和哲学的——这些概念产生了引导科学技术的使用达到建设性目的所必需的社会控制。然而，注意到这一点，就是要意识到我们世界所面临的问题甚至比原子弹的存在可能表明的更为严重。因为当我们转向定义世界上不同国家、民族和文化认为良好的社会组织类型的经济、政治和宗教教义时，我们发现的不是一致，而是根深蒂固的冲突。拉丁美洲对良好社会的概念不同于盎格鲁美洲；美国人对适当的经济和经济的观念
E DUCATION must fit men to understand and solve the inescapable problems of our time. Any consideration of the character of education, therefore, must begin with an analysis of these problems. Even at the cost of becoming repetitious, it must none the less be reiterated that the most pressing problem of our time centers in the atomic bomb. The presence of this bomb in our midst raises the question whether we will have any time to face the other pressing problems of our world. The next war will truly be a war to end all future wars, since it will be a war which ends all possible warriors. Nevertheless, the atomic bomb itself is not the real danger. For the atomic bomb will not hurt civilization unless men direct it to such ends. This means that the problem centers not in scientific technology but in moral philosophy and the social sciences. It is the latter subjects which create social conceptionseconomic, political, religious, and philosophical-necessary to generate the social controls requisite for directing the use of scientific technology to constructive ends. To note this, however, is to become aware that the problem confronting our world is even more serious than the presence of the atomic bomb might indicate. For when we turn to the economic, political, and religious doctrines defining the type of social organization which the different nations, peoples, and cultures in the world deem good, we find not agreement but deep-rooted conflict. The Latin-American conception of the good society differs from the AngloAmerican one; the American conception of appropriate economic and